what do you mean by soil pollution
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Earth's surface is covered up with layers of material that can be organic or inorganic, known as soil. Soil pollution is caused mainly by the accumulation of toxic materials, chemicals, radioactive agents.
Plants get their nutrition from soil, and herbivores and omnivores also get indirect nutrition from the fruit the plant is bearing.
Hence, any pollution to the soil, a ultimately leads to health problems in animals and impacts badly on plants too.
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1. Soil contamination is a part of the land degradation which makes soil unfit to use in many ways as it becomes toxic and loss of nutrition makes it totally waste.
2. Soil contamination is characterized as the build-up of chronic toxic compounds, substances, salts, radioactive substances, or illness-causing agents that negatively affect plant growth and animal welfare in soils.
3. Soil pollution is caused mainly due to improper waste disposal system, deforestation, excess use of fertilizers and many more.
4. We can minimize soil pollution by limiting the use of harmful pesticides, practicing proper plantation systems, using less plastics etc.